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Early Modern era · 1529

Capture of Peñón of Algiers

The capture of Peñón of Algiers was accomplished when the beylerbey of Algiers, Hayreddin Barbarossa, captured the fortress called Peñón of Algiers, on a small islet facing the Algerian city of Algiers from the Habsburg Spaniards.

Capture of Peñón of Algiers · Wikimedia Commons
When
1529
Where
Peñón of Algiers
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Algeria49 BCE – today

Before and after

Battle of Formentera1529Ethiopian–Adal War1529 – 1543Show on timeline

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